From a biodiversity conservation point of view, it is evidently unavoidable that standardized lists of species, including on line global synonymic checklists, have to be agreed upon.
Several global initiatives (electronic lists of scientific names of taxa: Species 2000
[http://www.sp2000.org/], Integrated Taxonomic Information System [http://www.itis.usda.gov/], Global Biodiversity Information Facility [http://www.gbif.org/], Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org/], Index Fungorum
[http://www.indexfungorum.org/]) that aim to compile or support the development of lists of scientific names are likely to fulfill this precondition in the future.